Wednesday, 4 June 2014

But the data, she says, show that female professors in the study
actually were more likely to be second through fourth authors than
first. It knocked down her theory that male scientists had failed to ask
her to collaborate on academic articles because she is a woman. Since
she first visited Mr. Bergstrom's lab, in fact, she has published three
academic articles on which she is not the lead author. The article on
gender and authorship will be her fourth.

"For me," she says, "this really showed the beauty of science, that
you can have this personal experience that isn't reflected in big data."

Since the end result of the study had to be that women are discriminated against, the theory had to be discarded since the observations showed the opposite. And not that this evidence could be applied to the situation of men.

Instead of showing the beauty of science, it should've shown discrimination against men; but then women don't have that privilege going for them.